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Roger Fry in The Dial


    Profile

    Relationship to Woolf and/ or O'Keeffe

    Works By and About Fry in The Dial

    Other Works By and About Fry

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    Profile
    Roger Fry was an art critic, collector, and artist. Worked briefly in America for the Metropolitan. Famous for organizing exhibits that introduced post-impressionist art into England; also helped people in America set up Armory Show. Promient critic of the aesthetic school, emphasizing formalist principles. Introduced Cezanne in particular.

    Relationship to Woolf and/ or O'Keeffe
    Relationship with Woolf was very strong. Was her sister's lover for some time and introduced Woolf to post-impressionist art theory. Talks with Fry were instrumental in the literary experimentation she began in the twenties...

    Don't really know how much Georgia knew of Fry. Do know she read Clive Bell . Both Gerogia and her husband found Bell rather superficial. One hopes they read Fry as a more sophisticated version of Bell, but they may have been under the then-pervasive general impression that Fry was one of Bell's followers rather than the other way around. It is probable that Henry McBride met Fry while he was working at the Met and through arranging the Armory show. McBride reviews sevral of Fry's books in The Dial.


    Works By and About Fry in The Dial

    Thomas Jewel Craven. Rev. of Vision and Design by Roger Frye, 71.1 (July 1921) 100-106

    Roger Fry, "M Jean Marchand," 73.4 (October 1922) 388-91 (British follower of Cezanne)

    Boardman Robinson, "Roger Fry" (drawing) 74.5 (May 1923) f.p. 474

    Roger Fry, Two Woodcuts, 74.5 (May 1923) f.p. 492

    Roger Fry, "The Wertheimer Portraits" 75.5 (Nov 1923) 443-46 (paintings by John S. Sargent)

    Roger Fry, "Salamanca" 75.6 (December 1923) 536-43

    Roger Frye, "Spanish Scene" (drawing) 75.6 (December 1923) f.p. 543

    Laurence Buermeyer, "Some Popular Fallacies in Aesthetics" 76.2 (February 1924) 107-21 (Discussion of Craven and Fry)

    Thomas Craven, "Psychology and Common Sense" 76.3 (March 1924) 236-42 (repudiating charge he copied theories from Fry)

    Roger Fry, "Mr. Epstein's Sculpture" 76.6 (June 1924) 502-6

    Briefer Mention, 77.3 (Sept 1924) 264-8; includes of Living Painters: Duncan Grant, intro by Roger Fry, 268

    W.C. Blum. "Improbable Purity," Rev of The Artist and Psychoanalysis by Roger Fry 78.4 (April 1925) 318-23

    Henry McBride, "Rosbif et mayonasie" Rev. of Portraits in Oil and Vinegar by James Laver, 80.2 (Feb 1926) 150-2 (brief mention of bad review given to Fry's painting and of reference to Fry as Bell's "most distiquished convert")

    Comment 80.2 (Feb 1926) 176-8 (discusses Hogarth Essays: mentions Fyr, "Mr. Bennett and Mrs Brown" )

    Roger Fry, "The Anatomy of Melancholy," by Democritus Junior, Illustrated by E. McNight Kauffer 81.2 (August 1926) 142-7

    Roger Fry, "Seurat" 81.3 (September 1926) 224-32

    Comment, 81.3 (September 1926) 267-8 (quotes from Fry's "Art and Commerce")

    Roger Fry, "Plastic Colour" 81.5 (November 1926) 391-401

    Briefer Mention, 82.5 (May 1927) 432-5; includes Go She Must by David Garnett, Composition as Explanation by Gertrude Stein, Art and Commerce by Roger Fry

    Philip Littell, "Vision Untraduced" 84.3 (March 1928) 211-4 (on Roger Fry)

    Charles K. Trueblood, "Mr. Fry's Flemish Art" Rev. of Flemish Art, A Critical Survey by Roger Fry. 85.2 (August 1928) 162-3

    Other Works By and About Fry



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